The second event in CIMRO DAYS is a different kind of symposium: four young musicologists will give four different and exciting views on the same subject, “Mechanics and Mechanisms in Music”. You’ll find out what subtle connections are there between wheels, pistons, clocks, as well as between musical predictability versus musical unforseeableness, by listening to Ştefan Firca, Irina Niţu, Vlad Văidean (Bucharest) and Bianca Ţiplea-Temeş (Cluj). The symposium is powered by Modernism.ro and is part of the “Variations on a Given Theme” series, one of the very few commission projects for young musicians in Romania – sustained by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund / Administraţia Fondului Cultural Naţional.

The International New Music Week, the oldest and most respected contemporary music festival in Romania, organized by the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists, starts this Saturday, on May 24th and ends on May 30. Here is what the Artistic Director, composer Dan Buciu, has to say about this 2014 edition and check our the complete program below.

New music, contemporary music, musical avant-garde… we may continue in a similar way but this terminology fails to be perceived in a strict and unitary way by the musicians and music lovers of the second decade of the 21st Century! The Festival that we propose to the public and the specialists in May 2014 is dedicated to new music – that music that has been written starting with 1950: this music has been impelled by the technological and scientific progress (let us remember the concrete music, the electronic and electro-acoustic music, the computer assisted music or the music built on mathematical basis) but also by the development of some ideas that had germinated in the second half of the XXth Century: the integral serialism, the “global effect” music, the aleatorism, the minimalism. This is the vast and generous objective of the 24th edition of the SIMN Festival.

It would be an illusion to try and provide a complete retrospective of six decades of music in only one week. The musical life is dynamic and ever changing and its values (even the “oldest” ones) have not been decanted yet. The Festival organizers wanted to focus on the contemporary music phenomenon (the last 20 years) without neglecting the values (even if only partially confirmed) of the previous decades (the 6th, the 7th, the 8th and the 9thof the XXth century. The present issue of the Festival is structured on cycles of events: “Prestigious Chamber Ensembles”, “Great Romanian Performers of New Music”, “Young Musicians and New Music”, “Prestigious Guests”, “Great National and International Ensembles” and “Experimental Concerts”. There will also be a Symposium with the theme “Current Challenges and Trends in Romanian and Universal Music after 1990” and a New Music Performing Masterclass that will be organized by Andreea Butnaru at the National University of Music in Bucharest and at “George Enescu” National College of Music. Its results will be embodied in a concert at the end of the masterclass.

SIMN 2014’s main purpose is undoubtedly that of gaining the public’s attention and having more and more people attending the concerts of a musical “zone” that is (unfortunately) thought to be reserved to specialists only. There will be high quality performances; consecrated artists will be promoted – but also those who aspire to success in a justified manner; this way, SIMN 2014 aims to attract true music lovers – those who overpass the prejudices and who will surely discover new sonorous realms, strange and fascinating musical events. They will joyfully rediscover “Music” – regardless of the classical or modern barriers.

SIMN 2014’s team invites the public to attend the concerts in Bucharest and in other cities starting with May 24th until May 30th 2014. We wish you a wonderful musical experience!

Artistic Director,

Dan Buciu

THE INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC WEEK | SĂPTĂMÂNA INTERNAŢIONALĂ A MUZICII NOI (SIMN 2014)

Program in Bucharest

Saturday, 24.05

11.30 a.m. | Romanian Atheneum Hall

“Young Musicians and New Music”

The “Universitaria” Orchestra of the National University of Music in Bucharest

Oana Bălan ( “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca) – The Development of Music Management as Support for Contemporary Creation after 1990

Dragoș Călin (The NationalUniversityof Music in Bucharest) – Music and Music Personalities in Canadian Music after 1990

Iulia Cibişescu-Duran („Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca) – Structure and Language in my own Works: Concerto for violin and orchestra no.1 and Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra no.2

Lavinia Coman (The National University of Music in Bucharest) – The “Ombra del mar” cycle, seven songs by Nicolae Coman on lyrics by Miquel Martí i Pol – a Merging of Music and Poetry

Grigore Constantinescu (The National University of Music in Bucharest) –Draft ofa Profile of Octogenarian Master Cornel Ţăranu

Leonard Dumitru (The „George Enescu” University of Arts in Iași) – Creative Achievements and Aspirations: Viorel Munteanu at 70

Corneliu Dan Georgescu (Heidelberg Universität, Germany) – Romanian Composers at Venerable Ages. The Contribution of Earlier Generations at the Fruition of Romanian Music

Nicolae Gheorghiță (The National University of Music in Bucharest) – Research Directions in Byzantine Romanian Musicology after 1990

Sanda Hîrlav-Maistorovici (The National University of Music in Bucharest) – “The Daughter of the Sea” – a Choreographic Poem for Children by Carmen Petra Basacopol. Analytical Musicologic and Aesthetic Observations.

Olguța Lupu (The National University of Music in Bucharest) – The Quotation in Works by Tiberiu Olah Written after 1990

Liviu Marinescu (California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, SUA) – The Concept of Sonic Plasma in Horaţiu Rădulescu’s Music

Octavian Nemescu (The National University of Music in Bucharest) – The Cultural-Artistic Crisis after 1990

The Romanian Music Information Center organizes between June-November 2014 CIMRO DAYS, a series of musical events that will take place at A1 (Piata Amzei no.1) – one of the freshest sites in Bucharest. If you are interested in Romanian contemporary chamber music, we invite you to „Expositions and Presentations” (June 8 and October 8), where you’ll be able to talk directly to the composers and musicologists from different generations about the performed works. Four young Romanian musicologists will analyse and present the „Mechanics and Mechanisms in Music” from four different point of views on July 6, in casual symposium. This event will be included in a „Variations on a Given Theme” series of comissions meant to stimulate and promote the new generation of music specialists in Romania. The other event from this category is „Frescomania” (November 4), a series of short contemporary variations on Girolamo Frescobaldi’s gorgeous air Se L’aura Spira (1630), transformed in a kaleidoscope of personal styles.

All music will be performed by the members of SonoMania, at the moment one of the most active and energetic new music ensembles in Bucharest, that has been trying since it’s foundation, in 2012, to create new contexts for contemporary and modern music, especially through multimedia and synchretic concerts. SonoMania has played in important festivals such as The International New Music Week (Bucharest), Bucharest Music Film Festival – ArCuB, Happoman 2012 (South Korea) or Meridian – ISCM-Romanian Section Days (Bucharest).